According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the cooperation pact was signed after the meeting of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his counterpart, Khaled bin Mohamad al-Atiya, in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

While Qatar scrambles to save its image after the hack, its imperial allies are already fuming at the remarks.

In a embarassing incident that has the Qatari government bending over backward to fix its “tarnished” reputation in the face of its petrodollar-fueled and U.S.-backed Gulf allies, the state-run Qatar News Agency took down an article that defended all of Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran, claiming the site was hacked.